[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.132 # Garudapurana 1.132 English (machine translation) 1.132 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.132.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.21) — 1 part ### [1.132.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, chapter 132. Brahmā said: Eating only at night until the eighth day, and giving a cow at the end of the year, one goes to the realm of Indra; this is declared as the observance of good destination! ### [1.132.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.2) On the bright eighth day in the month of Pauṣa, \[saying\] "O Mahārudra!"—truly well-done! Done for my pleasure, O goddess, the fruit is a hundred-thousandfold. ### [1.132.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.3) When an eighth day falls on a Wednesday in either of the two fortnights, then the narrative of this observance \[to be performed\] on it is supreme. ### [1.132.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.4) Those who observe vows on that day shall not have their prosperity diminished. Taking eight handfuls of rice, leaving two fingers \[of space\], ### [1.132.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.5) a man desiring liberation, who eats that cooked rice with true devotion and faith, placing it in a bowl made of mango leaves wrapped with kuśa grass, ### [1.132.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.6) accompanied by kalambikā and tamarind, obtains his desired fruit. Having worshipped Mercury with fivefold offerings at a body of water, ### [1.132.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.7) According to one's capacity, one should give a priestly gift of a small pitcher filled with rice grains. / The seed-syllable should be 'buṃ budhāya', ending with 'svāhā', \[accompanied by offering\] a lotus and other items. ### [1.132.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.8) On the petals and in the center of the limbs, \[one should worship Budha who is\] dark-complexioned, holding an arrow and a bow. / The holy narrative of Budhāṣṭamī must definitely be heard by the virtuous. ### [1.132.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.9) In the city named Pāṭaliputra, there was an excellent twice-born named Vīra. / He had a wife named Rambhā, and an excellent son, Kauśika. ### [1.132.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.10) There was a daughter named Vijayā, and an ox named Dhanapāla. / Taking him in the summer, Kauśika went to the Gaṅgā and disported himself. ### [1.132.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.11) While he was engaged in play, the ox was carried off by force by cowherds who were thieves. / Rising from the Gaṅgā, he wandered into the forest, grief-stricken. ### [1.132.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.12) Vijayā went for water, and she also went together with her mother. / Thirsty and seeking lotus fibers, he then came to a lake. ### [1.132.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.13) Seeing celestial women engaged in worship and the like, he was amazed. / Going to them, he begged for food: "Together with my younger sister, I am hungry." ### [1.132.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.14) The women said: "Perform the religious observance! We will give \[it\], so perform the observance." / For the sake of a wife and for Dhanapāla, they both worshipped Budha. ### [1.132.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.15) Taking two leaf-bowls of food, they ate what was given. / When the women departed, those two givers of wealth saw Dhanapāla. ### [1.132.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.16) Taking what was returned by the thieves, he reached home in the evening. / Having bowed to the grieving Vīra, he slept happily at night. ### [1.132.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.17) Seeing that the maiden had grown into a young woman, \[the father thought,\] "To whom should my daughter be given?" / Out of sorrow, he said, "To Yama!" Through her righteous conduct and the good fruit of the religious observance, ### [1.132.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.18) the two parents went to heaven. Kauśika performed the religious observance for kingship / and ruled the great kingdom of Ayodhyā, having given his sister to Yama. ### [1.132.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.19) Yama also said to Vijayā: "Be the mistress of the house in my city. / Do not open \[this door\]." When Yama went elsewhere, she did not act thus. / She saw her own mother standing, suffering torture in nooses. ### [1.132.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.20) Then, agitated, knowing the religious observance that bestows liberation as taught by Kauśika, / she performed it, and thereupon her mother was liberated; therefore, one should practice the religious observance. ### [1.132.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.21) By the power of the merit of the religious observance, having gone to heaven, she dwelled happily. ### [1.132.21.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132.21.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-second chapter, titled "Description of the Budhāṣṭamī Observance," in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.132.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.132) · Pramāṇa